Office: 458 RBC Phone: 610-758-6726 Fax: 610-758-6941 Managing Information (MBA Core Course) Electronic Business Systems and Applications (Elective, both at MBA and Undergraduate Levels)

Yuliang (Oliver) Yao, Ph.D. holds the Scott Hartz '68 Professorship.

Department of Management:  Assistant Professor

Education
-  Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, B.S.
-  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.B.A.
-  University of Maryland, Ph.D.

Yuliang "Oliver" Yao's research interests are in the inter-disciplinary fields of information systems and supply chain management, including business value of IT-enabled supply chains, economics of electronic commerce, and VMI, CPFR and CRM. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Markets, Supply Chain Management Review, etc. He received the E. Grovesnor Plowman Award from CSCMP in 2007, a prestigious award in the SCM field, for his paper "Managing Supply Chain Backorders under Managed Inventory: A Principal-Agent Approach and Empirical Analysis". He also received the 2009 Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award which highlights quality research and refereed scholarship in business and applied economic disciplines at Lehigh.
 

Research Interests

• inter-organizational information systems
• VMI and CPFR
• electronic commerce
• organizational learning in supply chains
• incentive mechanism in supply chain collaborations
• empirical analysis: econometrics and survey based

Selected Publications

• Anindya Ghose and Yuliang Yao, “Using Transaction Prices to Re-Examine Price Dispersion in Electronic Markets,” Forthcoming, Information Systems Research.
• Yuliang Yao, Martin Dresner, and Jonathan Palmer, “Private Network EDI vs. the Internet Electronic Markets:  A Direct Comparison of Fulfillment Performance,” Management Science, Vol. 55(5), 2009, pp. 843-852.
• Yuliang Yao, Yan Dong and Martin Dresner, "Managing Supply Chain Backorders under Vendor Managed Inventory: An Incentive Approach and Empirical Analysis," Forthcoming, European Journal of Operational Research. (An earlier version of this paper won the CSCMP 2007 E. Grosvenor Plowman Award.)
• Yuliang Yao, Jonathan Palmer and Martin Dresner, “An Interorganizational Perspective on the Use of Electronic Supply Chains,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 43(3), 2007, pp. 884-896.
• Joseph Bailey, Samer Faraj, and Yuliang Yao, “The Road More Traveled: Web Traffic and Price Competition in Internet Retailing” Electronic Markets, Vol. 17 (1), 2007, pp. 56-67.
• Yuliang Yao, Philip Evers, and Martin Dresner, “Supply Chain Integration in Vendor-Managed Inventory,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 43 (2), 2007, pp. 663-674.

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